NEW THINKING

          "Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!"
                                 from the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life"  (1946)

   When I was a kid, my parents taught us to remain silent when adults were talking.
    Today, however, it is the youth who insist on doing the talking while putting a muzzle on elderly people.
    Today, it is the youth who believe they possess new thinking while believing that older people are suffering from old thinking:  that the thoughts and words of senior citizens are no longer applicable in this changing world.
    Youth today believe it is their duty to save planet earth from having a heatstroke, from contamination of the air we breathe, and from the destruction of earth by people who care not for the earth the way they do.
    Youth today believe the earth is overpopulated by people---while saying nothing about the populations of animals, fish, birds, and plants.
    Moreover, the United Nations believes that humans pose the greatest threat to the survival of the earth as well as the survival of the human species.
    By this method of new thinking, selective killing of certain humans is on their minds:  that certain people should be eliminated in order for a select few to continue the human race as well as protect the earth from destruction.
    In other words, certain people are considered to be no more than toxic waste, including a baby in its mother's womb.
    This method of new thinking, however, is nothing new, and the youth are deceiving themselves to believe that they are the masters of the earth and lords over people. 
       "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be:  and that which is done is that which shall be done:  and there is no new thing under the sun."  (Ecclesiastes 1: 9)
    Adolph Hitler convinced Germany's youth that certain people should die.
    New thinking is nothing new under the sun:  it has been done before.
   

A STORYBOOK

   Our thoughts are what we are.
   The things we think about define us.
   The real you and the real me is inside our heads, in our own minds, and in our own words.
   Not wanting others to know the real you or the real me, we can hide from others in our own minds.
   Only that part of me that I want you to know will I let outside of my mind; for if I reveal everything about me, then I would be stripped down and naked and totally vulnerable; therefore, I keep part of me clothed and out of danger.  For there is a risk  in letting others know the real me:  a risk we are not willing to take, even among the people we know the best---for they, at best, are just like us, and we exhibit only part of us  through our personalities, which begs the question:
    Which part of us that we reveal through our personalities is real, and which part is fake?
   Jesus said,
       "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:  but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."  (John 14: 10)
   Do the words of our minds speak of God, or do they speak of us?
   When you enter a room, do you see others, or do you think about them seeing you?
   Jesus said,
       "In my Father's house are many mansions."  (John 14: 2)
   In our minds, which is our house, how many rooms do we have for ourselves?  From time to time, do others see us in different ways?  Is this also how we project ourselves, from time to time, from different rooms?  I can be warm and talkative today, but tomorrow I can be cold and silent.  Why did I change?  Or why did I switch rooms?  Could this indicate a lack of consistently in my own life?  Or is this a way for me to present myself to others by changing my cloaks in different rooms?
   How can others know us when we keep the greater part of ourselves hidden in our minds?
   Your life is a storybook, but what are you going to tell others from all of the various rooms in your mind?  Certainly there are some parts that should remain confidential, but there are others parts from which people could get to know you better.  The same can be said for them.
   The Bible reveals to us the mind of Christ, from which we can get to know Him better, and, for some people, they can come to know Christ for the first time.
   For the Bible is the storybook of Christ, written in words from the mind of God.

THE GREATEST WAR

   The greatest wars are the wars we fight inside our own heads, and the greatest of these are the wars we fight with people:  when the words of our minds become swords, which we use with our tongues to cut people to the ground.